What can I say , it works perfectly . I used Bandicam to record a small video of one of my doors being blown open with the shotgun , converted it from mp4 to wmv using Windows DVD Maker ,put the Story Zone marker down on the map and attached the storyinzone .lua file to it . Tested it out and it started almost instantaneously . Couldn't get any easier than that . Nice.....

Lance

Yes indeed, the story zone is awesome !!!
I've tested too with a small video... it works perfectly.

Glad to hear you are enjoying it.

Wow so many features I've been waiting for all in one update

Nice voice acting. Where do you get your actors?

Great visuals in the video too! The areal view, etc. What did you use to do all that? Looks and sounds very professional.

Question on Story Zone

Noted that once the video has been run, and I exit the story zone location, if I go back into the story zone the video does not play again??

Is this intended? Is there any way to reset so it will play each time I enter that zone?

Thanks

In the storyinzone script, it destroys the zone. Haven't messed with it but I'd assume if you deleted that line, you'd get the result you're looking for!

Try it this way.

Old Larry. Can you give us any tips on making good cut scenes?

Thanks Jerry and Myke

@lordjulian
I too would love some pointers, as video will be a major part of my projects. I'm using MOVAVI as a video editor and converter, about $50, and pretty good.

For "Old Larry" level stuff, you'll need some kind of video compositor, I have an older version of Adobe After Effects, but there are others out there.

SOAPBOX TIME.....
Cut scenes often include video captured inside the game. The problem here continues to be the lack of script-able engine connections so we can move the camera, the same as we can move any other entity. The basic camera/player movements are already in the engine. All that's left is access to control functions like CameraMove XYZ, CameraRotate XYZ, and SetCameraPositionXYZ, etc. OR give the camera an entity number, and let us use the existing movement, rotation, and position functions.

With these connections we COULD script specific movements, speeds, banks, look downs, etc, all as real time video, captured with a system like Action. Plus, if we're ever going to be able to drive a car, fly a helicopter, or slide down a zip line, we're going to need this level of camera control.

Love the Story Zone Video, hope down the road we might be able to attach video to an object as part of its texture, ... way down the road...I understand.

Hopefully Camera control is soon... PLEASE!!!

end SOAPBOX....

I still try more several programs for that. Must take any video scene then to change inside animation, different effects (for video and sounds), subtitling...
and mixing all those to obtain the final video scene. Hard work for me, but not impossible.
Later edit: the "NVIDIA FX Composer 2.5" help me very well, but I still learning to use it too...

For video editing (cut, paste and some video effects) I using a few good programs: "VSDC Free Video Editor",
"DivX Author 1.5", and the "NVIDIA FX Composer 2.5" for supplementary animation and video effects.
For the sound effects I use the "Cool Edit Pro 2.0". And the list of all those is still open...
Later edit: please read this at: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/211521

Thanks guys.